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unfortunately, I had a crash early on that
roughed me up pre y good. Luckily, I
was able to salvage a qualifying posi on
and get my lip all s tched up before the
main, but I was definitely feeling the
effects from the crash all night."
21 JASON ANDERSON
4TH 450SX
Despite dealing with a broken shi er,
Jason Anderson, who qualified first
earlier in the day, managed to pull of an
impressive fourth in the main. "Atlanta
1 was a good day for the most part,"
Anderson said. "I qualified P1 in prac ce
and went into the heat race and got
first. In the main event, I got a li le
tangled up in the first corner and ripped
my shi er off, but I was able to get
into third, manage my race and s ll get
fourth so it was pre y good."
25 MARVIN MUSQUIN
7TH 450SX
"It's good to be back racing but it was
crazy to only get one prac ce consider-
ing you have to learn the track and go
straight to qualifying," Marvin Musquin
said. "The laps were super long and the
prac ce was super short so I only got
one really good lap and then I made a
Meanwhile, another rider had
resumed the lead and was in a po-
sition to nab the first 450SX win of
his career, as well. Rookie Chase
Sexton (Honda HRC) inherited
first place when Plessinger went
down, but there were still six long
laps left to go, which turned out to
be one lap too long for Sexton but
just enough for Tomac.
With approximately four
seconds between himself and
Sexton just past the halfway
point, Tomac started to slowly
reel-in Sexton. Another Tomac
come-from-behind charge was
in motion. Tomac eventually
whittled Sexton's lead down to a
little more than a second with two
laps to go when a lapper momen-
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Points leader Cooper Webb
didn't have quite the magic
of the last three rounds, but
he finished well ahead of his
nearest rival, Ken Roczen,
and that's what really matters
for him and his team.
